Since 1979, MSF has been providing medical humanitarian assistance in Sudan, a nation plagued by starvation and the civil war, prevalent malnutrition and one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world.

If the election is successful, it will be the first time in Nigeria that one elected government has handed power to another without military interference, a milestone in a nation plagued by coups, despotism and civil strife.

The public system in New Orleans has long been among the most abysmal in the nation, plagued by bad management, low test scores and corruption.

Does this nation - already plagued by masses of people ill-prepared - not gain if laboratory facilities, libraries, and language labs are updated in church-related schools?

The FSLN took over a nation plagued by malnutrition, disease, and pesticide contaminations.

In a nation plagued by obesity, a store called Casual Male Big & Tall would seem to mint money.

The country's leading labor unions called the strike to protest the economic policies that have brought fiscal stability to a nation once plagued by runaway inflation but have failed to address Argentina's record unemployment and deep recession.

In a nation plagued by religious violence, and political and economic uncertainties he helped reassure Indians that the might of the colonial state could be successfully subverted on the sporting field.

Precautions Despite the relaxed nature of Brazil's Northeast, visitors should remember that they are in a poor nation plagued by vast disparities in income.

Investors quickly turned their attention to other Asian nations plagued with wildly overextended banks, corruption and collapsing financial institutions.